British parliament attack: The victims

Four people were killed and at least 50 people from 12 different countries were injured in the terror attack outside Britain's parliament on Wednesday.

Here is what we know about the victims.

'Hero' police officer

Keith Palmer, a 48-year-old member of the parliamentary protection force, was fatally stabbed as he stood guard at the Westminster vehicle gates.

Prime Minister Theresa May said the husband and father, who had been a police officer for 15 years, was "every inch a hero".

He previously served in the British army alongside James Cleverly, now a Conservative MP, whose voice shook with emotion in parliament as he called for Palmer to receive a posthumous honour.

As a tribute, London's Charlton Athletic football club placed a scarf on the stadium seat he held a season ticket.

A US tourist shared a photo of herself with Palmer taken less than an hour before his death, so that his family could see him smiling in what may be the last picture of him alive.

Thousands of people also donated money to Palmer's family via a crowdfunding page set up by the police union.

The fund had collected nearly £600,000 ($750,000, 700,000 euros) by Friday evening.

Retired window cleaner

Leslie Rhodes, 75, a retired window cleaner from south London, died of his wounds late Thursday when life support was withdrawn.

Friend and neighbour Michael Carney, who knew Rhodes for around 40 years, kept a bedside vigil in hospital.

"What harm did he ever do to anyone? He was the nicest man you ever met," Carney said.

"My wife and my two girls went up there and were with him until he died, playing him music. He liked Queen."

Mother-of-two

Colleagues of Aysha Frade, a mother mowed down as she was on her way to collect her children, said she was "loved" and would be "deeply missed".

A Spanish diplomatic source told AFP that Frade was a 43-year-old British national whose mother was Spanish.

Media reports said her daughters were seven and nine years old.

Rachel Borland, principal of DLD College London where Frade worked in the administration team, said she was "highly regarded and loved by our students and by her colleagues".
- 'A great American' -

Kurt Cochran, 54, from Utah in the United States, had been in London with his wife Melissa Payne to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.

"Our family is heartbroken," his brother-in-law Clint Payne said in a statement emailed to AFP.

US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to pay tribute to "a great American" adding that his "prayers and condolences are with the family and friends".

Cochran's wife is reportedly in hospital, where she is recovering from a broken leg and rib and a cut on her head.

Injured

Police said 31 of at least 50 people wounded were treated in hospital. Two people remained in "critical condition" Friday, while another has life-threatening injuries.

May said that Britons, French, South Koreans, Greeks, Romanians, and individuals from China, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland and the US were among the wounded.

Some of the injured have been visited in hospital by May and Prince Charles, the heir to the throne.

Twenty-nine-year-old Romanian Andreea Cristea was hit and fell from Westminster Bridge into the River Thames. She had an operation for a blood clot on the brain. She was in London to celebrate the birthday of her partner Andrei Burnez, who sustained a broken foot.

"He intended to ask her for marriage in the same day and this was unfortunately their destiny," Romanian ambassador Dan Mihalache told the BBC. "It's quite a miracle that she could survive."

Three French pupils on a school trip to London, aged 15 and 16, were among those hurt, including two who suffered broken bones.

Five South Korean tourists -- four women and a man in their 50s and 60s -- were wounded after being knocked to the ground by people fleeing as the assailant mowed down pedestrians, Seoul said.

Portuguese pedestrian Francisco Lopes, 26, suffered leg and hand injuries. "I had no, literally, no time to get out of the way," he said.

The injured also included three police officers returning from an event recognising their bravery, two of whom have very significant injuries.

Among the injured Britons were four students from Edge Hill University in northwest England, who were on an educational visit to the parliament.

One of them, 19-year-old Travis Frain, was thrown over the bonnet of the car and broke his leg and arm.

"He loves politics, that is his ideal trip, going to parliament. He was probably buzzing with excitement," his mother Angela Frain said.